Multi-Focus Image Fusion Based on Pixel Significance Using Counterlet Transform

Abstract  The objective of image fusion is to merge multiple sources of images together in such a way that the final representation contains higher amount of useful information than any input one.. In this paper, a weighted average fusion method is proposed. It depends on using weights that are...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Iman M.G. Alwan
Formato: article
Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of Baghdad 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8f97973fda07423dbbf5b04dc6411777
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
Descripción
Sumario:Abstract  The objective of image fusion is to merge multiple sources of images together in such a way that the final representation contains higher amount of useful information than any input one.. In this paper, a weighted average fusion method is proposed. It depends on using weights that are extracted from source images using counterlet transform. The extraction method is done by making the approximated transformed coefficients equal to zero, then taking the inverse counterlet transform to get the details of the images to be fused. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been verified on several grey scale and color test  images, and compared with some present methods. Keywords: image fusion, counterlet transform (CT), pixel significance, weighted average.